The Rx Generation: Conference on Alternatives to Meds in Children

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This September 19-20, Freeport, Maine hosts “The Rx Generation: Alternatives to the Use of Psychiatric Medications with Children,” a conference that will include presentations by Steve Balt, Barry Duncan, Jacqueline Sparks, Robert Whitaker and others on the evidence and rationale for finding alternatives to drugging children.

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Kermit Cole
Kermit Cole, MFT, founding editor of Mad in America, works in Santa Fe, New Mexico as a couples and family therapist. Inspired by Open Dialogue, he works as part of a team and consults with couples and families that have members identified as patients. His work in residential treatment — largely with severely traumatized and/or "psychotic" clients — led to an appreciation of the power and beauty of systemic philosophy and practice, as the alternative to the prevailing focus on individual pathology. A former film-maker, he has undergraduate and master's degrees in psychology from Harvard University as well as an MFT degree from the Council for Relationships in Philadelphia. Kermit leads workshops and webinars on the role of humor in psychotherapy and other human services. You can reach him at [email protected].

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  1. To each of the participants, on behalf of children and youth:

    Thank you, thank you, thank you!

    And I loved the title of this session by Barry Duncan, PsyD (who was also a participant earlier this summer at Vatican on behalf of children):

    ‘The Jury has Deliberated and the Verdict in In: No First Use of
    Psychotropics for Children and Adolescents’

    Amen.

    Duane

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